薬石

やくせき【薬石】

¶父は～効なく死んだ

With all the treatment he received， my father died. あらゆる治療をしたにもかかわらず死んだ.

* * *

やくせき【薬石】

●薬石効なく all remedies having proved ineffective [ineffectual, inefficacious]; in spite of careful medical treatment.